Dubravka Tomsic
Slovenia's Dubravka Tomsic is something of a connoisseur's pianist, not a marquee name widely known outside of classical music circles, but often listed among the finest players in the world by those in the know. Only now becoming well known in the West, she was a marquee name in the former Yugoslavia and in other Eastern European countries. Born in 1940 in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, she gave her first piano recital at age five. She grew up in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana and studied at the Ljubljana Academy of Music during her childhood. Her talents were noticed by the great Chilean-American pianist Claudio Arrau, who encouraged her to come to the U.S. to study. So, when she was 12, Tomsic moved to New York and enrolled at the Juilliard School, where her primary teacher was Katherine Bacon. The teenaged pianist gave recitals around New York, including one in Carnegie Hall that attracted the attention of Artur Rubinstein. Tomsic studied for two years with Rubinstein, and he called her "a perfect and marvelous pianist." She graduated from Juilliard with two special awards, by which time she had an appearance with the New York Philharmonic under her belt.
After these high-flying beginnings, however, Tomsic chose to return home to Ljubljana. From the late 1950s until the late 1980s she taught at the Ljubljana Academy of Music (where she is still a professor), raised a family, and built a considerable reputation in southeastern Europe. Her return to the U.S. spotlight came in 1989 with an acclaimed performance at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, and since then she has played recitals in over a dozen U.S. cities (often finding herself immediately asked back afterward) and around Europe. She has also made concerto appearances with orchestras and performed at several major music festivals. Since 1987 she has released over 60 recordings, including most of the major Romantic concertos and solo piano music from Bach and Scarlatti to Debussy and Rachmaninov.
At the keyboard, Tomsic's reserved demeanor belies the expressivity of her playing. Noted for the variety of tone colors she can coax from the piano and for the power and smoothness of her trills, Tomsic offered performances that often evoked the adjective "seamless." Her "dazzling technique," noted the Boston Phoenix after a Tomsic concert that finally ended after five encores, "is never an end but a means of achieving emotional directness and poetic insinuation."
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Have Wine wth Chopin
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on Jan 1, 1999
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The Art Of Dubravka Tomsic
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on Jan 1, 1988
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Chopin: Nocturnes No. 1 and 2, Op. 27 (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on Jun 18, 2012
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Piano Concerto 3, Loenore Overture No 3
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on Jan 1, 1987
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Classics For Dog Lovers
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on Jan 1, 1999
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Chopin: Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49 "Impromtu Fantasy" (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on Jun 18, 2012
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Sensuous Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Music - Released by Stradivari Classics on Jan 1, 1999
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Chopin: Waltz for Piano, Op. 70 (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on Jun 18, 2012
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Debussy: Suite Bergamasque No. 3, L. 75 "Clair de lune" (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Released by EMG Classical on Jun 25, 2013
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Schumann: Piano Concerto - Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Ida Czernecka, Dubravka Tomsic
Classical - Released by Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. on Jan 13, 2014
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Schumann: Piano Concerto, Op. 54 - Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Slovenian Symphony Orchestra, Dubravka Tomsic
Classical - Released by Int - Bertus on Oct 3, 2016
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30 Favorite Classics: Volume 3
Stephen Milenkovic, Dubravka Tomsic
Symphonic Music - Released by Otello on Jan 1, 1995
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Für Elise (Sped Up)
World - Released by Cleopatra Records on Feb 24, 2023
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Silver Colección, Scarlatti - Piano Sonatas
Classical - Released by SendClassic on May 19, 2002
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Grandes Maestros Del Barroco - Domenico Scarlatti
Dubravka Tomsic, Peter Schmalfuss
Classical - Released by Piros Comercial Digital on May 18, 2015
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Classical Bach 16
Classical - Released by Music Master on Jul 14, 2018
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Classical Bach 13
Classical - Released by Music Master on Jun 15, 2018
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Chopin: 12 Nocturnes
Dubravka Tomsic, Peter Schmalfuss
Classical - Released by Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. on Jan 24, 2014
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Chopin: 14 Waltzes & 4 Impromptus
Dubravka Tomsic, Peter Schmalfuss
Classical - Released by Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. on Jan 24, 2014
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Frederic Chopin
Ida Czernecka, Dubravka Tomsic
Classical - Released by Blaricum CD Company (B.C.D.) B.V. on Dec 18, 2013
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Classical Chopin 1
Classical - Released by Music Master on Jul 18, 2017
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